Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] Simba
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:57:44 -0400
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beautiful

ric


On Mar 30, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Last posting of photographs for a week at least - Neela & I are off to join
> Howard & Esther Cummer for a week of tiger watching (hopefully) at
> Ranthambhore National Park.
> 
> The subject here is the lion pride. In Ndutu at this time of the year there
> is such an abundance of food that no predator generally goes hungry - and
> in lion prides that leaves a tremendous amount of time for social activity.
> These are the best fed lions and lionesses that I have seen in the wild,
> sleek and glowing with health, and the prides were large and full of cubs
> of all ages and sizes. This set deals with the family, and more
> particularly with the mother-child (or more accurately the pride lionesses
> and the cubs) relationship - which was so tender and loving that it was
> wonderful to see.
> 
> Family Meal:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_05587.jpg.html
> 
> Mother's Love:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06208.jpg.html
> 
> The cubs tried to suckle once too often and got this telling off:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06222.jpg.html
> 
> There always seemed to be a great competition to suckle:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07021.jpg.html
> 
> Contentment:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07045.jpg.html
> 
> Loving Lick (a big one!):
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120307_08302.jpg.html
> 
> Very young cubs (one month or so old) and their mothers in the early
> morning sun - in a typical African landscape:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120308_08583.jpg.html
> 
> Please see large.
> 
> Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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